After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 232 He also looked at her

The next morning, Zeng Hua started to get busy at home. Seeing that she was up, Tian Tian'er also got up to help.

Wang Qiuxia got up, prepared the meal, and went over to help.

In ancient times, the coming-of-age ceremony for boys was not taken so seriously, but that for girls was relatively important. However, farmers were not like the wealthy families who made it so elaborate. They would just invite two good friends in the village to a coming-of-age dinner. This was also a disguised way of telling others that their daughter had reached the age of coming-of-age, and if anyone was interested in her, they could come and propose marriage.

Zhang Danniu got up early in the morning, took a bath, changed her clothes, and put on her clothes. Then Zeng Hua tied up her hair, which was previously draped over her shoulders, and fixed it with a hairpin.

Tian Tian'er took out the rouge and powder she used when she got married and put on makeup for herself. Once the powder was applied, she looked even more charming and lovely, and also a little more mature.

Wang Qiuxia looked at her and smiled: "Our eldest girl is really pretty."

Zhang Da Nv blushed and lowered her head.

Wang Qiuxia took her hand and took out a thin silver bracelet from her bosom and put it on her.

Zeng Hua looked at him and smiled: "Sister-in-law, aren't you wasting money? Xiao He sent so many good things yesterday."

"Xiao He is Xiao He's intention, and this... is my intention."

Zhang Danniu looked at Zeng Hua, only to see Zeng Hua smiling and nodding slightly. She then bowed slightly and said, "Thank you, auntie."

Wang Qiuxia presented a gift, and Tian Tianer also took out a box: "This is what your eldest brother and I picked for you, see if you like it."

Zhang Da Nv opened it happily and found a pair of pink pearl hairpins: "Wow, sister-in-law, these hairpins are so beautiful." Then she felt that they might be very expensive: "Too expensive, sister-in-law." She felt a little embarrassed because her sister-in-law didn't even wear such expensive pearl hairpins on her head.

Tian Tianer picked it up and put it on her hair: "Mom, does it look good?"

Zeng Hua nodded somewhat touchedly: "It looks good."

"Thank you sister-in-law!"

"What did you say!"

While everyone was busy, Wang Hong secretly looked at Zhang Da Nv today. She felt amazed and wanted to look more but didn't dare to.

He touched the thing in his arms, finally gritted his teeth, and when no one was paying attention, he pulled Zhang Da Nv to the backyard and took out the pendant he had prepared and gave it to her.

"This is a coming-of-age gift for you."

Zhang Daniu saw that it was a silver locket hanging around her neck and quickly rejected it: "This is too valuable, take it back quickly."

But Wang Hong refused: "Don't worry, this is the money I saved secretly, please accept it!" After saying that, he threw it in her hand and turned and ran away.

This made Zhang Danv very embarrassed, but looking at his back as he ran away, she couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips, lowered her head and carefully put away the silver lock.

At noon today, there were only two tables, and Zeng Hua invited the village chief and Li Cuihong's family from next door.

At the dinner table, Chen Xiuquan didn't know what to give, but thinking that Zhang Da Nv was the girl Wang Hong liked, she gritted her teeth, wrapped a silver coin in a red envelope, and congratulated Zhang Da Nv on her coming of age.

The village chief's family and Li Cuihong's family also gave a symbolic red envelope. It wasn't much, maybe just a few cents, but the fact that they gave a red envelope was a sign of respect for Zhang Quan's family.

At the dinner table, Li Cuihong saw Zhang Da Nv, who was dressed up cutely today, and couldn't help but praise her: "Zeng Hua is really good at raising a daughter. This girl doesn't look like a farmer like us at all, but more like a girl from the town. I wonder which family will be lucky enough to marry your girl."

Hearing this, Zhang Da Nv reflexively looked at Wang Hong, only to see that he was also looking at her. Her face immediately turned red and she lowered her head, her face looking as if she had been painted with rouge.

Zeng Hua couldn't help but smile after hearing this: "Li Cuihong, you are the best at talking! You have to eat more today."

"That's nature, that's nature."

Chen Xiuquan looked at Zhang Da Nv and felt very satisfied. Before, this girl was not yet of marriageable age, and she had never thought about her in that way. But now that she knew that she was the one her son liked, she couldn't help but take a few more glances at her. The more she looked at her, the more she liked her.

Wang Qiuxia saw her enthusiastic eyes, quickly squeezed her hand, and whispered: "Sister-in-law, please be careful."

Chen Xiuqun quickly retracted his gaze.

After the meal, everyone enjoyed it very much.

Zeng Hua also set off firecrackers at the door. When the villagers heard this, they were wondering at first what the Zhang family was doing.

But when the village chief's wife told everyone in the village in the afternoon, everyone realized that it was his daughter Zhang who had come of age.

After lunch, Xu Xiulian insisted on taking Zhang Xiu'e to thank Wang Hong's family.

Zhang Xiuqin was unwilling: "I want to thank them? Are you crazy? Don't you know that the family who saved you yesterday are Jiang Xiaohe's relatives? You want me to thank them!" After saying that, she felt something was wrong.

"You're not really into that poor boy, are you?" Zhang Xiu'e said this, and when she saw Xu Xiulian didn't refute, she jumped up immediately.

But before she could explode, Xu Xiulian interrupted her: "Mom!"

She stood up, pushed Zhang Xiu'e to sit on a stool, and said while massaging her shoulders, "How can he be poor? I went to ask around this morning. Previously, his whole family worked in Jiang Xiaohe's shop. They earned several taels of silver a month. I also heard that Jiang Xiaohe was training him to be the shopkeeper."

Zhang Xiu'e raised her eyebrows slightly: "Really?"

Xu Xiulian sat down next to her and nodded slightly: "I heard that their family is still repairing their house, and it's all made of blue bricks and tiles!"

Zhang Xiu'e's eyes lit up now: "A brick and tile house would cost a lot of money."

"That's not it!"

Seeing Zhang Xiu'e's relenting, Xu Xiulian immediately said, "Besides, mother, think about it, if you go and find me a man, you can find one with good conditions, but he will either marry someone else as a concubine or be someone else's second wife. Think about that boss back then, his appearance, I really, now think about it, I'm lucky I didn't marry him, otherwise I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to eat every day."

Zhang Xiu'e saw her disgusted expression and it didn't look like she was acting at all.

Xu Xiulian continued, "Besides, Wang Hong is also very handsome. Think about it, they are Jiang Xiaohe's relatives. Jiang Xiaohe is so rich now, and he will help these relatives. As long as he becomes the shopkeeper in the future, are you still worried that I will suffer with him?"

Zhang Xiu'e frowned slightly at first, then she felt that Xu Xiulian was right.

"But since things are so tense between us and Jiang Xiaohe, will that family agree to this marriage?"

Xu Xiulian was not afraid, and a blush crept up on her face: "He carried me back to the village yesterday, and many people in the village saw it. I had physical contact with him, does he want to deny it?"

Zhang Xiu'e's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she clapped her hands, "Yeah, why didn't I think of this!"

However, she looked at Xu Xiulian again: "Have you really thought it through? Are you really interested in that boy?"

Xu Xiulian nodded with a red face. Compared with the boss that year, Wang Hong was like one in heaven and the other in hell!

"Okay, Mom knows what to do!"